the week's top stories from superstorm sandy wreaks havoc across the northeastern u.s. leaving one hundred dead millions cold and the country's most expensive presidential campaign to date in a tailspin. no peace for post libya as the country's two major cities are attacked a grenade strikes the security headquarters in tripoli while a car bombs detonated in benghazi. truth under attack in greece a journalist shows solidarity with whistle blows were being silenced while trying to expose government wrongs. and swastikas flying in the streets of moscow russia's most radical nationalists and merged in the capital and nationwide aiming to stir up divisions on the country's day of unity.

with a look back at the past seven days top stories and the latest developments this is the weekly t.v. while voters in florida lined up to cast their ballots in early voting those in new york are lining up for fuel rations and blankets much of the big apple remains paralyzed with tens of thousands still without power heat or hot water nearly a week after superstorm sandy ripped through his art to use marina portnoy with the political fallout from the disaster. she was a storm the size of europe and it might be a game changer for america's upcoming u.s. presidential election early voting was suspended as hurricane sandy ripped through the u.s. east coast monday causing eight and a half million homes and businesses to lose power president barack obama canceled campaign appear. it says to handle the superstorm the election will take care of

itself next week right now our number one priority is to make sure that we are saving lives national polls show the commander in chief garnered excellent marks for his response to my a lot of faith and thema i think he'll do ok that was the president. flying overhead. he's my man. vote for obama. the possibility yet the biggest praise of all came from a staunch romney supporter the cooperation for the president i did states has been outstanding the president has been all over this he deserves great credit if you think right now i give a damn about presidential politics that you don't know me looking to also score political points republican candidate mitt romney rebranded his victory rally in ohio into a relief a vent for sandy victims. to stop their political campaigning. so much use as

a beef. roast appears to be very close thank you but while the candidates attempt to feature sandy in their quest for votes her victims are too busy piecing their lives back together below thirty ninth street has become known as the dark side of manhattan hundreds of thousands have been surviving without electricity heat and hot water for more than five days on staten island polling stations are no longer standing voting locations are being moved in parts of new jersey massachusetts connecticut and pennsylvania that are still dark and damaged by the storm some experts say the last minute scrambling will undoubtedly leave countless americans disenfranchised from democracy on november sixth it's destroying the legitimacy of the election potentially on the east coast early voting is been wiped out in these cities and states the voting of the elderly on election day

the voting of the poor on election day the voting of new yorkers on election day is likely to be diminished through no fault of their own and that will affect the outcome of the election an election now defined by two men and sandy marina port ny r.t. new york. one aspect of the race that's putting many voters off is how hard it is to tell the leading candidates apart from their relationship with banks to their foreign policy there are striking similarities between the two joseph shore from the socialist equality party says the ballots lacks a true choice while we enter the election with the understanding that the whole process is fundamentally antidemocratic it's controlled by billions of dollars now and corporate money the media controlled by corporations and getting on the ballot is incredibly difficult requires millions of dollars for the. signatures in every state it's something of

a farce and even within this framework of course the choices that are available or even you know that within this anti democratic primary or basically agree on everything so even if of course if you had a democratic process between these two candidates american people don't have really do think that choose from the end war the attack and democratic rights the bailout of the banks the attack on social programs all of this is really agreed to by both romney and obama. it is accepted as the framework by the media. contrary to what many disenchanted americans believe there is an alternative to republican and democrat we've been bringing extensive coverage of the party candidates plans and policies and it continues on monday when we host their final debate live from washington will two parties keep us politics a one way street. will new voices disrupt the power of power and. what if america changes. this election let's go monday november fifth on

r.t.e. . what a shame and then libya's capital have set the supremes security committee headquarters on fire and looted it followed series of sporadic gun battles outside the building a middle east correspondent has more details. well a gun battle raging in south tripoli between two wible libyan militias around the libyan security headquarters building and from the information we have at least five people have been injured and that building has been destroyed now we are receiving reports that the whole area has been cordoned off that many residents in the area have rushed home and if they're kicking themselves in fine inside of their homes and also arming themselves why one could say that security building is also makes to the tripoli central hospital and some of the what it's from this gun battle has the hospital was also on a sunday morning today was a call bomb explosion in front of a police station in the second largest city in libya of being ghazi now at least

three police officers were wounded in that car explosion we're not hearing any reports as of actual people who have been killed we also know that part of the building particularly the entrance has been damaged that facade to the building has been talking just for you and they are in shattered windows now what if this comes up to more than a thousand protesters take to the streets of benghazi they are calling for the eastern half of libya to be separated we're talking here about what he hopes the territory of the country that holds more than three quarters of the oil reserves they want their own autonomy that one too many of the other things and then one thing ghazi to be the economic capital of the country all of this coming a little more than a year since we so corp revolution i'll still be formulated by gadhafi and what. is the polarized nation of people colorization sentence for people wanting a gun battles on the streets we also know that for weeks now the city of funny when it has been and to see and from there we saw how when pictures of death and

destruction. he's point to sneer that when it's focus on the best ever carry security situation with me as i came in he's the editor of the pan-african news wire joining me live now from detroit so why is the libyan government unable to bring security to the country a year after gadhafi was deposed. because the people who are claiming to be the government of libya right now did not install themselves in power they were installed in fact by the pentagon the central intelligence agency and in the other line a treaty organization these elements which composed the general national congress which they are calling themselves now have no coherent political ideology they have no real cohesive political organization and consequently what we're seeing now is an escalation of attempts against symbols of authority inside libya itself that claiming that these attacks in tripoli today were result of clashes between two

militia groups but it's highly unlikely that these attacks would take place with rocket propelled grenades at such a centralized symbol of authority inside libya itself we believe very strongly these attacks are deliberate that they're designed to knock down the existing symbols of authority and said libya itself in the same situation is true of benghazi as well because you have such in benghazi of course the east and west divisions remain that those people in benghazi as we've just been hearing from paula see a recording out for independence for autonomy would that help indeed if they did get that you know just intensify the internets in conflicts that have been going on in libya now since the overthrow of the previous timoteo government headed by colonel moammar gadhafi historically during the period of the ottoman empire as well as a tyrant colonialism the country was divided basically in three different regions

of phase on in the south tripoli at a time in the. last and of course are annika in the east and as a result of the independence movement in libya after nine hundred fifty one and of course after the seizure of power back of daffy and his cohorts in one nine hundred sixty nine there was a concerted effort to bring about some type of national identity and cohesiveness inside of libya all of that has fallen apart over the last year and this is why we're having these type of sectional conflicts inside the country so how long now would it take for the authorities to restore order in libya is that possible under the the second stanza what our greatest concerns are is that this will precipitate an even larger and more systematic intervention by the united states and we saw just this last past week the removal of general ham as the head of the u.s. africa command the africa command is the u.s. military unit that's designed specifically to address what the u.s.

perceives as being the rising tide of terrorism in africa general ham was moved out because of the attacks in benghazi the fact that the u.s. africa command could not prevent these attacks they could not respond and that's the dishes fashion and as a result of that he lost his position so i don't believe that the libyans who have been stalled in power are able to resolve this conflict our greatest concern is that there's going to be deeper and wider so who are servants really and should military intervention isn't justified when we bear in mind so many of the militias that are against each other that is a big challenge so isn't military force justified under those circumstances when we go when the shias in effect try to take over the country well the armed intervention would take place by the same forces that actually brought about the confusion and divisions inside the country we can always have to remind ourselves that twenty six thousand sorties were carried out against libya last year larry six

hundred airstrikes they felt the. dept of their national resources and also the blockade of the country and utilization of all types of chemical weapons as we saw in bani walid two weeks ago the use of nerve gas the use of white flour suppose this is all being engineered by the united states pentagon and civil intelligence agency they have no business in libya thank you very much indeed for your thoughts i mean i think a way the editor of pan african news watch joining us live on r.t. we appreciate your time thank you. but there's also terror in syria in the heart of the capital shortly we have details of an explosion near highly secured government buildings in damascus. also later this hour tempers friend london after the e.u. seeks even more cash for its budget but in peace say it's not worth it and maybe time to go. some of russia's most radical political groups around him force this sunday from diehard nationalist to outright fascists

and dozens of cities tens of thousands of joined marches chanting against immigration israel is a lamb and all things foreign government has been watching the crowds in moscow. the slogans and the messages that we've been hearing from the crowd behind me is that russia for russians only they want the flag of the russian order they're basically demanding jobs for your russians whatever that means and they're also pushing to repeal the law part of the russian criminal law that actually punishes hate crimes motivated by religious hatred nationalists and that that hatred so it's a message of national unity that probably doesn't sit well with a large chunk of the population now there are some reports about six thousand people in the crowd right now the permit us for about ten thousand people so we could see those numbers flooded of course a massive police presence here as well but so far the protest seems to be largely peaceful although we've also heard reports of about twenty five people wearing

black clothes with the swastika shouting slogans they've been detained in another part of the city center here in moscow we have to keep in mind that this is play of swastikas is of course banned in russia as well as many european countries similar types of rallies have been taking place across russia and we've heard of another report of about ninety people detained in the urals city if you can to be in good part taking part of an un authorized nationalist rally there now the police say that most of those people were teenagers again rather disturbing sight frankly we've seen a lot of by nationalist flags a sort of icons from the church which i guess is the symbol of some of the people here as well as some reports of people actually chanting long live anders breivik the far right extremists who has massacred seventy seven people in norway. a place of worship in london that's four times bigger than some full feature except this time it's a mosque we hear from a community including muslims who are wary of plans drafted by a group that links to places where some of the seventy seven bombers prayed and

that's ahead. resolute over reform bahrain is defying the old rallies with crowds holding out against more tear gas and arrests we get an expert view later in the program this is the week. in the middle of russia's no from away from civilization and if we are one helicopter treat from the nearest village. they still one family have been living here for a long time in tents made of reindeer skins. lodging

runs in a signal and minutes they also grew up in the two but left it at the age of six and never returned they now live in the city in apartment building but still remember their regions. was planted here as a dancing teacher. was. still his dancing as he tells the stories about his motherland. lives in europe to now has a one thousand strong reindeer had when the enemy only saw the lichen and marks

around it is gather the turns and move to another posture they travel hundreds of kilometers in winter we men and children for them. the two families have less of a chance to come across each other they belong to different worlds even though there's sometimes a similar. greek whistleblower arrested after publishing a list of the country's potential tax evaders was acquitted on thursday but another is still in custody after threatening to reveal how the books were cooked before greece got its buy in out as peter all of it reports the trend in greece is to root out those who reveal wrongdoing rather than the perpetrators. is the greek

government using bully boy tactics to cover up its failings that's the question that took thousands of greek journalists to the streets of athens the consulate for their outrage was the arrest of journalist cost us vaxevanis after he revealed the names of more than two thousand wealthy and highly influential greeks accused of stashing illicit gains in swiss bank accounts. we published a list that other countries had in their possession and our government was aware of for two years but did nothing in the absence of democracy reece is governed by corrupt cartoon characters who deceive the public claiming their handling tax evasion vaxevanis was set free after the judges decided that he did not have a case to answer however his story is sent a shockwave through an already fractious society we are in

a period of political fossil and political crisis social crisis is obvious we have. high rates of unemployment we are a real thing one might say weimar republic kind of unemployment levels there is poverty and there are there is more austerity coming but when it comes to reporting on government business one senior member of the greek union of journalists told me that it's getting close to cooperate all quit american medicine tough restrictions have been imposed to any voice of the opposition and the media goes restricting journalists some two thousand five hundred media professionals technicians included have lost their job since last year. and those who attempt to stand up to authority and expose corruption are handcuffed to be arrested because he revealed the names obviously you can understand that people can cooperate with

a state that. vaxevanis told me he won't keep silent i asked him if he was given another list of names they already do this is my job this is what journalists do they don't cover scandals they tell the truth and the elites have tried for two whole years to cover up major evidence that renders them in the system entirely unreliable for the good from the arrest of a journalist while trying to reveal wrongdoing has left some greeks feeling that their democratic rights are being roads here in the very place of democracy peter all of a see. they had to have daily greece don't know that says the revelations couldn't come at a worse time for his country's leaders journalists and politicians can be in bed together for many years they kates in going to face and. politics you know we do crises these deep crisis we're experiencing the last two years then journalists

follow we are already met countdown to day we count that he buys two thousand and thirteen. the euro group will have a year a working group the syrian says sure we are waiting for two years extend sure everything is holding their breath and we don't need that i mean the government as we don't need any any there you know it's a competition between two the founders of course it will. because politics. politicians and corporate. with the money being squeezed all around there's one man who's pleasing the big banks by sinking a small. people who robbed banks go to prison banks to real people get paid bonuses that has to stop. he's taking finance back to basics of the after his community at a time when the big lend as oh they look out for themselves. that still to come for you this hour but first an explosion in the syrian capital as we did at least

eleven people that lost their place in a heavily guarded military and government buildings no one submitted the attack but al qaeda linked militant groups have been behind similar recent incidents meanwhile the un's examining where the video of rebels apparently mention captured syrian troops is a war crime that these ten soldiers were kicked and beaten before being sprayed with bullets as he journalist james corbett says it's rare for rebel actions to come on the foreign scrutiny. the atrocities are definitely being committed by the rebel forces and and unfortunately that is being completely ignored because it serves of course the interests of the people who are backing the rebels and who are against assad to try to portray them in the best light possible so we've seen over the months numerous documents coming out from different organization including amnesty including including human rights watch documenting summary execution of prisoners torture the use of children in these conflict on the part of the rebels but that has been conveniently buried in the headlines time and time again and even some of the reports that didn't know some of these atrocities being committed by

the rebels were almost always prefaced by reports of government atrocities and that was buried somewhere down halfway through the article time and time again so it is of course and it would be hypocrisy that's underlying this and that's trying to manipulate public opinion certainly in the west to to be on the fours and on the side of these rebel forces syria's opposition leaders to try to reshuffle that ranks and agree on a more common platform as they meeting catulus capital the shake up has been proposed by washington which revealed plans to bring in militants to fighting. militants fighting on the front line shia political analyst eric draitser says the initiative is not aimed at resolving the crisis first and foremost i think it represents the manufactured nature of the opposition or at least the political opposition that we see in the public sphere the syrian national council and people like us michael mani and other leadership there they never had any legitimacy among the syrian people they merely had legitimacy which within the ruling class circles

of the west but what's happened in recent months as the offensive from the syrian military as it has developed what we've seen is that they have no real backing on the ground that is to say the manufactured opposition and so the united states in their imperialist project to destroy the independent nation of syria has to find another way and so a shake up of the opposition with new quote unquote leaders emerging this is the u.s. strategy one that is doomed to fail. the u.s. national archives the neigbor of record but try finding anything to do with wiki leaks but i bristle doesn't want to divulge anything uncomfortable so this is what you get when you search the archive about anything linked to the whistle blowing web site. also a lot of moments get a tip off to see the international space station with your own eyes with a master alert to tell you when the s.s. goes flying overhead the details for you at all t. dot com. london's been filling plenty of john venues and it's

a limp it year but next in line could be the building of a massive ten thousand capacity mosque but even muslims in the british capital fear it could be a fundamentalist breeding ground as well to find out. four times bigger than some paul's cathedral a mega mosque that will fit ten thousand people and it could be coming to london's east end if it gets the go ahead it's built the river in center will be the same size as london's looming but as a power station it would also be the biggest place of worship in the u.k. of any religion but critics have slammed the proposal saying that it would create a muslim bastard in the forces that are still working to bring the largest mosque the u.k. has ever seen in to reality revered architects planning consultants and glitzy p.r. teams all paid for by the organization behind the idea to bleach each amount

a group that's causing significant concern this is a return beat him out of all the islamic groups has created ghettos over in toronto you know in canada right there around the world it's a huge group and wherever they go they create barriers they create hostility they create division they create separatism whether it's unassuming name the riverine centers website claims there's a demand for a new muslim place of worship in culturally diverse east london not that they're happy to talk about it it's representatives refused to speak to us when we approach the prepares site home to their current mosque it does not want to integrate the grounds on which search trying to set up here in britain and a big way and to the british they are going to western but actually they're also anti worldly they're also world but this is not just going to be a mosque this is going to be a center of training in which to reach out to islam is muslims

to harden up and mediæval lies the islam of ordinary muslims in this country and i mean so many muslims don't want that the problem here is that. muslims themselves are opposing this mosque not on the grounds that they don't want to worship their god but on the grounds that women aren't allowed the local population of muslim population has no on the say in how the mosque itself is governed or the local authority would say to us as you can have received a planning application as this is currently being it would be inappropriate to comment here at this stage the matter is if this went ahead if you like a tipping point. there be no stopping fundamentalist islam if this one goes up well if that happens we'll need to leave the country for the last one out please turn the lights off while the council ponders campaign as head religions say they hope the decision makers choose carefully just today let's set up shop in the british

capital. see east london. britain's got a batch of warplanes with the persian gulf on the flight plan but deploying to iran's backyard has nothing to do with iran's nuclear program so they say and. we tell you why after the break. and spain and italy insist they don't need a bailout bullet any time soon and lash out at germany's idea to tightly police the e.u. members budgets and punish those behind all that still to come. balls fifteen. kilograms of rice one thousand flatbreads. but why is the bride in

a bad mood. to tell the groupies. after all it is a done deal. two parties keep us politic. it's a one way street. or will new voices disrupt the power parallel. because if america changes trucks to a selection of close god monday november fifth on our team. do we speak your language or not a day of. school music programs and documentaries in spanish matters to you breaking news a little turn to tip angles couldn't stories. are you here. to enjoy it all to spanish find out more visit.